MUSIC: The Language of the Soul
Throughout the decades music has always been part of people’s daily activities and living. Some claimed it existed as early as the Stone Age period of human culture. However, most musicians would agree that music existed when man existed. The baby’s cry is already music, the sound of the leaves of the trees moved by the wind is also music and even simple human whistling is music.
Music has been called the language of the soul. Through music, people’s lives were transformed in many diverse ways no matter from what race and culture they may be from.
Different genres of music have a distinct impact to different collection of people. Some music may brighten people’s lives and become an inspiration as people would face the different challenges of life. However, there is also music that would bring pain to some people because that music is a remembrance of the dark memories of the past that a person may want to forget. However, whatever the feelings of the listener, music is the expression of the composer’s emotions, thoughts and experiences; may it be a positive experience or a negative one.
Music started with the natural sounds of nature – the whistling wind, the buzzing bees, and the baby’s cry. However, as human evolves, music also evolves; it’s a generated amalgam of sounds with a chemistry of human voice and instruments creating a melody, rhythm and symphony.
Humans learned to grasp and realize the value of music thus up to this contemporary period the art of music has continuously been evolving giving every human the kind of music that would pacify their individual standards.
Different music was categorized in different genres. These genres are created to aid listeners as to which song titles, singers and composers, they would listen to that would match their standards.
There are about a thousand of music genres existing worldwide, depending on which cultures and race the music was influenced.
Listed below are some of the common music genres in the music industry.
- A CAPELLA
- ACID JAZZ
- ACID ROCK
- BALLAD
- BLUES
- CHA-CHA-CHA
- CHILDREN’S
- CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE
- CHRISTIAN CAROL
- CHRISTIAN HARDCORE
- CHRISTIAN SKA
- CLASSIC COUNTRY
- COMEDY RAP
- COMEDY ROCK
- COMEDY OPERA
- COUNTRY BLUES
- COUNTRY MUSIC
- DANCE MUSIC
- DANCE POP
- DANCE PUNK
- DANCE ROCK
- DISCO
- DISCO HOUSE
- FOLK MUSIC
- FOLK METAL
- GLAM METAL
- GLAM PUNK
- GLAM ROCK
- GOTHIC METAL
- GOTHIC MUSIC
- GOTHIC ROCK
- GREGORIAN
- HARDCORE HIPHOP
- HARDCORE METAL
- HARDCORE TECHNO
- HARD HOUSE
- HARD ROCK
- HIPHOP
- JAZZ
- KARAOKE
- LATIN
- LATIN JAZZ
- LOVER’S ROCK
- LULLABY
- MAMBO
- MODERN ROCK
- NEW POP
- NEW WAVE
- OPERA
- ORCHESTRA
- ORIENTAL METAL
- PIANO BLUES
- PIANO ROCK
- POLKA
- POP
- POP RAP
- PRAISE SONGS
- PUNK JAZZ
- PUNK ROCK
- RAP
- RAP METAL
- REGGAE
- RELIGIOUS
- REQUIEM
- RHAPSODY
- ROCK
- SALSA
- SCREAMO
- SKA
- SMOOTH JAZZ
- SOFT ROCK
- SOUL BLUES
- SOUL MUSIC
- THRASH METAL
- WALTZ
Today thousands and thousands of songs are contributed in the music industry putting the singers and composers into fame, most especially if their songs are popular to the public.
Listeners helped their favorite singers and composers earn a living, by buying their released music albums. And this is how music becomes part of people’s lives and contributes to existing society.